nonce-wd. [f. Gr. ἐννέα + λόγ-ος word, after the analogy of DECALOGUE.]
1641. H. L’Estrange, God’s Sabbath, 59. For if this Commandment injoyneth now no particular and set time under the Gospel, then is the Law an Ennealogue, not a Decalogue, and so God hath lost one of his ten words.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., II. iv. § 42. 121. The worst is, when this was wanting, the Decalogue was but an Ennealogue; and therefore to preserve the number of ten, the Papists generally cleave the last Commandment into two.
